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COVENTRY — Down by the Mill Brook in South Coventry, an early 19th century farmer kept a Mulberry orchard and the silkworms that feed on that tree. The property likely included a building "where women processed and unwound the cocoons to a thin silk fiber suitable for twisting and weaving," town historian Bill Jobbagy wrote in 2006. The site that would eventually be known as Kenyon Mill became an industrial powerhouse, churning out woolen clothing, ladies' dress flannels and a nationally famous yarn brand called Tioga, among other products. Textile making in Coventry faded 50 years ago, but history has been preserved in the recently completed first phase of the...

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